Chris Preimesberger

These are the times that try Facebook’s souls, especially those newlywed Zuckerberg souls over in Europe on their honeymoon. Oh, and these times may also be trying for one or more investors in Facebook’s new stock who thought they were going to get rich quick. Let’s get one thing straight off the top: Facebook isn’t […]

Atlanta-based Premiere Global Services, which has been serving up remote audio and video meetings for enterprises for two decades, on May 30 launched a new version of its GlobalMeet audio and Web conferencing software that includes an iPad app. PGi’s cloud-based services deliver multi-point, real-time virtual collaboration using video, voice and file-sharing IT. Apps are […]

IT managers looking for an alternative to conventional on-premises management tools now have another option. Panorama9, a Danish-founded company that got on the IT map during the last six years by signing major customers such as IKEA and Orkla, announced on May 30 that it has integrated its cloud-based IT management platform with Zendesk, a […]

In a landmark IT court case that began on April 16, a federal judge ruled May 31 that Java application programming interfaces used by Google in building the Android mobile device operating system are not protected by copyright. Oracle, the plaintiff in the case and maintainer of the Java programming language as well as organizer […]

EMC, whose core competency has been IT hardware for more than a generation, continues to make moves to bolster its software offerings–the latest being data center information management. The storage and security company on May 31 said it has acquired 12-year-old, Montreal-based Watch4net in an all-cash transaction, with terms of the deal not released. Watch4net […]

Oracle is getting ready to officially launch its public cloud service at a media event at its Redwood City, Calif., campus on June 6. The site is already up and running; you can access it here. Registration requests currently are being taken for the various subscription-based application services, which include Fusion CRM, Fusion HCM (human […]

Hewlett-Packard is making some important changes in its leadership — primarily in the realm of software, where the hardware-oriented company sees a good portion of its future. The company announced May 30 that an HP outsider, venture capitalist and IBM veteran George Kadifa (pictured, left), has been appointed executive vice president of the company’s software […]

Hewlett-Packard has been in need of good news from its research and development people, and May 30 it was happy to report some. HP Labs, the company’s central research arm, has devised a new data center architecture that it claims requires no net energy from conventional power grids. If this holds true, it would signify […]

More and more iPhones, iPads and iPods (remember those?) are getting into people’s hands, so that means that an increasing amount of files are being stored on them. Because of the closed nature of those devices, it’s not a simple deal to take them apart in the event of a device failure to save the […]

You have two choices when you’re hiring a new CEO at a company: You either hire an insider or an outsider.The CEO€”not the chairman, not the board of directors, not the founders€”sets the tone for the entire company. He or she is the face of the enterprise to the media on a 24/7 basis. When […]

Yahoo, with all its corporate trials and tribulations, desperately has needed to make some sort of product and/or service news, if not just to change the subject from Scott Thompson, stock prices, talk of irrelevancy and shareholder lawsuits. And so it has with the release of its new browser, Axis. Of course, one knows there […]

Cloud systems and big data analytics certainly are the hot buying trends in IT in 2012, but they both play into an even more important overriding focus for IT managers: controlling all that data and using it in an efficient manner. Complete control of€”and real-time visibility into€”a data center’s daily workload production, both physical and […]